Singapore's PARKROYAL hotel wins CTBUH 2015 Urban Habitat Award winner
By Bustler Editors|
Thursday, Jul 23, 2015
In their latest winner announcement, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat revealed the PARKROYAL on Pickering as the recipient of the 2015 Urban Habitat Award. Launched last year, the award recognizes tall buildings that positively influenced their urban and cultural environments and exemplify intelligent sustainable design.
Boasting lush elevated gardens, the PARKROYAL hotel on Pickering impressed the competition jury with its "building as garden" concept. The four finalists included the Chatswood Transport Interchange, d'Leedon, the Jing An Kerry Centre, and the Tour Carpe Diem.
The winning team of PARKROYAL will be presented with the award during the CTBUH 14th Annual Awards Symposium, taking place at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on November 12.
Check out the winning and finalist projects below.
WINNER: PARKROYAL on Pickering - Singapore
Project description: "PARKROYAL on Pickering is located in the midst of Singapore’s high-density city center, and achieves its “hotel-in-a-garden” concept through extensive amounts of landscaping carefully integrated into the building’s design. The project incorporates extensive greenery and landscaping throughout.
A contoured podium responds to the street scale, drawing inspiration from terraced landscapes, such as rice paddies. These contours create dramatic outdoor plazas and gardens, which flow seamlessly into the interiors. The building appears to hover above the ground, resting on a series of columns that resemble the trunks of trees. This structural solution opens up the footprint underneath the building, making way for an expansive vegetated buffer between the street and a covered walkway that encircles the perimeter. This “urban verandah” establishes a cool, protected thoroughfare along the entirety of the block.
Multiple, extensive sky gardens are inserted along the façade, bringing lush greenery directly to the guestrooms and public areas. There are 15,000 square meters of plantings, water features, waterfalls, terraces and green walls in the many sky gardens. In terms of scale, the landscaping amounts to 215 percent of the site area, showing that, even as our cities become taller and denser, we do not have to lose our green spaces."
FINALISTS
Chatswood Transport Interchange (CTI) – Sydney, Australia
Project description: "The Chatswood Transport Interchange (CTI) is a mixed-use Transit Oriented Development project underpinned by an urban design strategy that establishes new streets and reinstates connections that were once severed by the previous station and railway line. The project demonstrates how transportation infrastructure project schemes can be integrated into the structure of the city to enhance the activity and quality of urban spaces. Representing the largest project of its kind in the state of New South Wales, CTI includes: an upgraded rail station linking the North Shore and Chatswood to Epping lines; an open, landscaped bus interchange; 10,000 square meters of retail spaces at podium level; and public pedestrian linkages reconnecting the center of Chatswood. Above this sit three towers accommodating 550 apartments."
d’Leedon – Singapore
Project description: "d’Leedon’s concentration of residential units in towers with small footprints creates abundant public space for residents and visitors to enjoy at ground level. The surrounding landscape is one of the strongest features of the project, and offers benefits to all residents. Various elements included to enhance residents’ quality of life are water features, lush vegetation, plazas, athletic facilities, and green fields. The project’s site has been arranged to align with the existing streets beside it. The primary axis of Farrer Road and the surrounding residential buildings have all informed a series of lines within the d’Leedon site to integrate the development with its neighborhood. These lines flow through the site and are organized in bands which define the location of each tower for optimal orientation."
Jing An Kerry Centre – Shanghai, China
Project description: "Jing An Kerry Centre occupies a prominent location in the Jing An district that, along with Shanghai overall, has developed swiftly over the past several years. The project’s design intends to create an accessible space, incorporating flexibility in its functions, which can serve to accommodate the area’s growing population, and meet the needs of residents and users. The building thus serves multiple functions, housing retail, transit, and offices all in one complex designed to accommodate the city’s growing population, but built to human scale. In contrast with the monolithic buildings nearby, this scheme is divided into distinct blocks that correspond to their different functions, with a large plaza to tie it together."
Tour Carpe Diem – Paris, France
Project description: "Located in the heart of La Défense, just outside of Paris, Tour Carpe Diem is the first building the area to reconnect the raised esplanade – known as the dalle – that continues the axis of the Champs-Elysées to the historic urban fabric of the surrounding city of Courbevoie. Tour Carpe Diem addresses the need for La Défense to evolve toward greater integration with its surroundings, and a more intimate pedestrian scale, and more interesting compelling architecture. This is primarily achieved through the addition of a monumental exterior staircase that links the dalle to an adjacent neighborhood within Courbevoie. The building is an important step forward in the evolution of La Défense toward pedestrian-friendly urbanism and environmentally responsible architecture."
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